Bowker v. Harris
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. This case was referred, and the referees reported the following facts: The defendant failed in 1846, at which time he was indebted to the plaintiff to an amount exceeding one thousand dollars, for which the defendant had executed to the plaintiff three notes.
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Assumpsit. This case was referred, and the referees reported the following facts: The defendant failed in 1846, at which time he was indebted to the plaintiff to an amount exceeding one thousand dollars, for which the defendant had executed to the plaintiff three notes. Between the time of the defendant’s failure and March, 1852, he and the plaintiff had various interviews in regard to the discharge of this indebtedness upon the payment of a certain per centum of its full amount. In March, 1852, the plaintiff offered to pay the defendant one hundred dollars in cash, ancf also to give him his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
The case shows that the defendant, being insolvent, and indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of about one thousand six hundred dollars, on promissory notes, by agreement with the plaintiff, in March, 1852, paid him one hundred dollars in money, aud gave him a note signed by himself as principal and by his wife as surety, for two hundred dollars, payable in a year, in full for what the defendant then owed the plaintiff; and thereupon the plaintiff gave up to the defendant the said notes which he held against the defendant; and that said note…
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